Reaibn Tries to Clean Up a Mess

"I am not sure what you mean, Lord Fred. Your 'umble servant has been trying to keep the home fires lit and your place at the table ready. Don't know how this place got to be such a mess, but I shall have it cleaned in no time. Milady and my lord can wash up in the stews just outside the castle wall, and there will be clean clothes ready for them. Your minions shall have dinner ready by then."

Not seeing any reason to stay in the muck and filth, Fred and Astra leave the castle grounds and they see a medieval bathhouse, or stew.

A bath, and a fresh set of clothes. Fred and Astra are certainly looking forward to that, although Reaibn's lack of reaction to the circumstances was odd.

Fred and Astra enter the stew, and find that everything is as Reaibn told them it would be, with one unsettling detail.

1. The liquid in the stew was not water.
2. The clothing that Fred and Astra were provided was not what a medieval lord and lady would wear.
3. The cheering crowd on the battlements as Fred and Astra entered the stews was a well-intentioned gesture on behalf of Reaibn, but did not have its desired effect.

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